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AN INSCRIBED ARCHAISTIC GOLD-SPLASHED PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT NEW YORK PRIVATE
BRONZE JUE COLLECTION
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY A PARCEL-GILT BRONZE ‘MYTHICAL BEAST’
the underside inscribed with a five-character inscription CENSER AND COVER
reading Bo Shen zuo bao yi (Bo Shen made this precious 17TH / 18TH CENTURY
ritual vessel) the base cast with an apocryphal Xuande six-character mark
Height 9¼ in., 23.4 cm (2)
See a closely related gold-splashed bronze jue of this type Height 5¼ in., 13.5 cm
with the same inscription from the Water, Pine and Stone PROVENANCE
Retreat Collection, sold twice at Sotheby’s, first in these
rooms, 25th February 1983, lot 140, and later in our Hong Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York.
Kong rooms, 4th April 2012, lot 139.
$ 6,000-8,000
$ 10,000-15,000
十七 / 十八世紀 銅局部鎏金海獸紋蓋爐
清十八世紀 銅灑金獸面紋爵 《大明宣德年製》仿款
銘文： 來源
伯申作寶彝
Ralph M. Chait Galleries，紐約

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AN INSCRIBED ARCHAISTIC BRONZE A GILT-BRONZE HARDSTONE-INLAID
VESSEL (HU) ‘ELEPHANT’ TRIPOD CENSER AND COVER
QING DYNASTY QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY
cast to the interior of the neck with a six-character wood stand (3)
inscription reading Bo Ju Zuo Bao Zun Yi (Bo Jun made this Height 9¼ in., 23.5 cm
precious ritual vessel)
Height 18½ in., 47.1 cm ◉ $ 4,000-6,000
The inscription on the present archaistic hu is inspired by
the renowned early Western Zhou dynasty Bo Ju Hu 伯矩壺, 清十八世紀 銅鎏金嵌寶「太平有象」
formerly in the Qing Court Collection, now preserved in the 熏爐
National Museum of Asian Art, Washington, D.C. (accession
no. F1959.14a-b), published in The Institute of Archaeology,
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, ed., Yin Zhou jinwen
jicheng [Compendium of Yin and Zhou bronze inscriptions],
Beijing, 1984, no. 09567 and on the Museum’s website.

$ 10,000-15,000
清 銅鋪首耳壺
銘文：
伯矩作寶尊彝
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